May 9, 2025 • 17 mins
Being called to serve God on the mission field is just one part of the "journey" to actually serve. Preston talked with Chris and Lacey Ryan about their personal adventure and where God is leading them ... perhaps for the rest of their lives.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, kids, welcome third hour of the radio program
affectionately known as Common Sense Amplified. It's me and him.
That's Jose over there in Studio one A. I am
sequestered in Studio one B, and it's The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Great to be with you, show three
and seventy five. But who's counting? I am, And I'm
(00:22):
grateful for every dog on one of those shows. And
I'm really grateful to have some friends in here with me.
I got to know Chris and Lacy over the years
as we attend the same church, and so, as full
disclosure here, we attend Redhills Church. They won't be attending
there directly for much longer because Chris and Lacy are
about to head out to the mission field. Welcome to
(00:43):
the show. How are you guys? Great? How you doing? Yeah?
All right? So deep swallow here, share the short version
of where you've been before we talk about where you're going.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh yeah, I guess I'll thanks some time sharing that.
So Lacey and I would say we both felt I
called missions pretty early in our life, our first like
real foray into the.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Ask, did you feel called missions separately before you were
married hunt. Yeah yeah, really yeah in different ways too.
It was pretty neat.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's a that's probably a story for another time, but
it is pretty cool how the Lord brought.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That all together. Nice okay.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But we spent our like our first real launch into
the missions world uh in Guatemala. We did like short
term trips with an organization for years that was fighting
human trafficking.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Mm hmm. It was faith based, but uh, you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Know, attacking that issue had on sort of first, and
it was in that space where both of us were
really we had been dating and we're on a trip,
and we both were like, man, this is what the
Lord is calling us to do together. And so we
then got married and spent our first full for foray
uh in a a country in Asia that I can't
(01:56):
really share, but I'm confident everyone listening would know where
we were.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Lacey, is that like, that's my man, We're going to
get married and go work in the mission field in
some Asian nation.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I remember being in Guatemala and just and I knew
what I wanted to do, and I knew what the
Lord had been calling me to do, and I was
seeing him work out those same gifts and I was like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What you both learned from without naming the country, we're
leaving that out. What you learned from that experience?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh man, One thing I learned is just how powerful
God is in a country that is it's very difficult
to even just say that you believe in God, follow Jesus.
The zeal and the passion of the believers to put
Christ above everything else was like you read about that
(02:48):
kind of stuff, but it was shocking to see it
firsthand and realize that, like, wow, people here are literally
willing to die for the faith and like without a
second's thought, Like, without a second thought, did it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Cause you to look at American Christians differently? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, I when we first came back, there was actually
a lot battling, a lot of sort of anger. Yeah,
but it did it definitely. You know, you see the
persecution that people face, and you see that for their faith,
for their faith, for their faith only. Yeah, and not
even for fighting to you know, evangelize, but just for believing,
(03:34):
just for wanting to go to church, just for participating
in worship. You know, they're persecuted and they they see
that and they're grateful for it because and.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
When you're in that situation, there's this dynamic tension because
as a Christian you're supposed to share your faith and
what you believe, but you're in an environment in this
case where you're literally risking your life to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, it's a really unique I think what's difficult for
a lot of us too is we feel this, you know,
this burden to be sharing at every opportunity. But there
it was also a really like powerful thing to learn
that like, uh, even I am just a vessel and
like trusting what the Holy Spirit is doing and using
me to do right now it might just be to
(04:17):
build a relationship with this person so that they eventually
get to get to a place where they can hear
what they need to hear. Because if I were to
say something right now, it could shut it down right now.
So even that in itself was like wow, I actually
have to take a step back, Like I have to
be the I have to realize like, oh it actually
it actually doesn't all rely on me, so I can
I can just be patient and wait for what God
(04:38):
is doing.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And like see in partner with him in that. So
you got to walk around with your discernometer on full
tilt to know whether it's time to share or not
be just wait.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Und percent yeahah and that Actually the second thing we
learned was how much we needed training, how much we
needed to you know, we had the zeal, we had
the love. It was confirmed that we absolutely knew this
was what Jesus, this is what the Lord was calling
us to do. But man, we needed someone to teach
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us how to do it in a way that wouldn't
hurt the people we were ministering to.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Back with Chris and Lacy Ryan, when I say missionaries,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Do you feel like missionaries? You mentioned the need Lacey
to get training. Did you do you feel different now
when you say to yourself I'm a missionary than you
did before the training.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh. I was gonna say a thousand percent, but honestly
it's more than that.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah. Why what comes about through the training that is
so I guess defining for your.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Role probably the tripping away of self simple.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, you know, whenever I think whenever we went to
our first field, we brought way too much of who
we were. We brought way way too much of what
presuppositions and just you know, oh you need this. I'm
coming to give you something that you know you need,
which is true in a sense. But we learned that
(06:25):
you know, we're we're just like Chris said earlier, we're
just the vessels for what the Lord is doing.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I heard someone once say that that the essence of
sharing the gospel, and whether that's just a couple of
people here in America or doing what you're doing overseas,
that the real boiled down, distilled version is one beggar
showing another beggar where they found bread. That's good.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, that's very good. Yeah, So that that resonates especially
and this is related to that. But you what what
you find in especially in a cross cultural situation, is
way before people respond to the Gospel, they respond to you.
And so like that that was what was and this
is what Lacy was touching on when she was talking
(07:05):
about what we took away.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
From the training.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But it was like, I want people to re spot
on the gospel. I don't want to come with like
things about me from my culture that I like that
are important, but those are the things that the people
are going to see first and here first, and I
don't want that to take away from the actual message
that I want to bring them.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So you've had a couple missions experiences, trips, stays, training,
and now in my mind, just you guys know me
just well enough to know that this is entirely possible.
I'm thinking dart board with the world. We close our
eyes and we throw a dart How'd you end up with?
Czech Republic?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So one of the things about our previous time, in
our first long term stay was even though it was
really difficult, we realized that, like, that's what we wanted
to work in. Like we felt called to difficult, complex areas,
and when we had opportunity to go visit the Czech Republic,
(08:02):
we realized that, like, wow, this is one of those places.
And but it's even what makes it even more unique
is it's sort of like an overlooked hard place because
students of history and theology will be very familiar with
people like Yan Who's and the Moravian Brotherhood. Those are
all Who's was a precursor to the Reformation. The Moravian
(08:25):
Brotherhood is the precursor to like the modern Mission's movement.
Those are all guys from the Czech Republic. This is
a place where like Christianity used to thrive and now
it's less than half a percent Christian. Wow, which when
you look at the world, that ranks it in some
of the most There's a lot of debate in the
missions war about what unreached means. But like, if we're
(08:48):
talking about people who just don't know the Lord, that's
pretty unreached.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
If he asked me, well, I was just gonna ask,
is it half a percent Christian? And the majority is blank?
Or is it blank as in they don't have them? Yeah,
they're secularists, they're humanists.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's like five like less than five percent has any
kind of believe anything at all. And then so ninety
five percent of the country is atheistic.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Really, that is hard to get my mind around. So
how do you even begin that process? Because I mean,
you're going, this is where you're going, and we're going
to tie into that a little bit more in a moment.
But where does that mission start? Well, part of.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It is I mentioned their history. I want like people
there will see that, Like it's not that I'm even
bringing something new to you, this is something that is
part of your Like I am a Christian today because
of the Zech Republic in a lot of ways, like
because of work that God started there. And so I'm
not even bringing you something you haven't heard before, it's
(09:56):
just something you've forgotten. Like this is woven into who
you are as people that the motto of the Czech
Republic is truth prevails, which is really interesting because they
are living in a place of you know, post truth.
But so I just want to help you rediscover, not
even bring in something brand.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
New and on an individual basis, it starts with just
earning trust and going over there and learning from them.
You know, this is a long term thing. It's not
just we're just going to go over.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And this isn't a three months six month.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Mission, you now, Yeah, this will take indefinite years of
building trust with individuals and showing them that we're not
there to just you know, bring them something and leave.
We're there to love them, just like Jesus would.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I would imagine that part of I mean, I'm not
trying to pat you guys on the back, but the
fact of the matter is anyone that does this is
making a remarkable personal sacrifice. You are leaving your families
and what you know to go and love these people
that you do not know. I would imagine that is
part of the entry point is for them to see that.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it, because people
when people understand that, they do see just how much
it's authentic.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah. I warned him before we ever started. I said,
it's going to be scary and frightening. How fast the
time is going to go by? And here we are
the final second. You're heading to the Czech Republic if
all things go the way that you want them to go.
And you were just saying the visas are approved, and
that's a miracle in and of itself, the speed of that.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, they'd say two three months, maybe longer, and it
was just a day or two past one.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So God wants you in the Czech Republic apparently, right,
So explain to people how that functions in your situation.
What does that look like going to the Czech Republic.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, So we are actually going to be partnering with
a really healthy local church in Prague, which is a rarity. Yeah. Yeah,
And I mean that's a whole miraculous story.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Is it a rarity because there is a church and
because it's local, and because it's healthy, all of those
things make it rare free together?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, okay, and just the way that it's led and
the discipleship orientation, and I mean they really pursue discipleship,
which is kind of rare in Czech Republic unfortunately. But
so we are actually going to be partnering with them
because they they want to be missional and they have
(12:25):
a lot of young people there that are are hungry
to be really you know, evangelists that that want to
be discipled in a way that hopefully they will become
future church planters.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
In my mind, I picture based on kind of what
you were describing, Chris, with the background of that there'd
be this remnant of older women with scarves tied around
their chin, right, that are that are make up that church.
And when you say there are young people there that
that really excites me.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah. People familiar with Prague will know that Charles University
in Prague is one of the oldest, like continuously functioning
universities in the world. So not only do all of
Check people from all of Check come to Prague for
that school, but people from the throughout the world go
to Prague for that school. Okay, so you actually have
this group of people sort of like constantly coming in
(13:18):
and out of younger people from Czech and throughout the world.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So there are two specific needs that exist right now.
Let's talk about first the need to get there. What's
the finances look like.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, so in order to get there, that's plane tickets,
that's apartment deposits, you know, all the things. We're looking
to raise thirty five thousand dollars, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And that's you're kind of liquidating your life here on
Stateside and it's moving everything that you have with you
and the whole nine hours.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We actually own about eight moving boxes of things total
right now, so like we don't have anything. That's also
partially just establishing a life there because like, yeah, we
are basically starting over.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, so you're you're purchasing residents and you're purchasing what
you need to function in the chest to public furnitures
and different things like that. All right, to give and
to help with that, what's the best way for people
to do that. The best way to do that is
actually really simple. It's give sendg dot com.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Slash ryans and that'll bring you to a our like
kind of campaign page for that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I have posted this of folks on our ex page
and I know some of you are like, I don't
do Yeah, I don't either, all right, but we have
the page and the link is there. I just pulled
it up. Give send go dot com slash ryans. You
can just write that down friends. I'm posting this on
the blog page as well, and this is for just
(14:52):
singular donations to help get you over there. Yes, right,
then there's the second level of need.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The second level of need is that that amount just
gets us there and gets us established in the country.
We we then need about six thousand a month as
just our how we live, like our regular ministry funds,
being able to buy food, all of that stuff, like
our yearly salary for the both of us, and that
is like a recurring need that we would need, you know,
(15:19):
and are.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You right now on support?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
My last update was that we're at about forty seven
hundred a month, So we're about thirteen hundred a month
below what we need to be at to just to
function indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So roughly speaking, you're about two thirds there, yeah, yeah, okay,
just about eighty percent.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So if we had thirteen people listening right now and
they wanted to give one hundred dollars a month to
support it, you're done.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I buy plane tickets.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Now we might not get all the stuff over there,
but I'll buy the plane guys there. And we've got
a link for that as well. But that process is
a little bit more because it is a we're hoping
for months commitments. I mean, you're not going to turn
anybody away that wants to help give anything towards that.
But what really, and I know this from our previous
efforts here on the show, what makes a difference is
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a monthly commitment of whether it's twenty dollars or fifty
dollars or one hundred, whatever it is. And so that
is through the Clearinghouse. Yes, real quickly, what's that about.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
So yeah, we are missionaries sent out by our sending church,
Red Hills, but we are also a partner with the Clearinghouse.
And essentially what they do is they handle all of
the finances for missionaries. You get set up with them,
they handle everything you need, any forms you might need
for governments, for visas, all of that. When people when
you give to them, it's tax deductible, all of those things.
(16:41):
But they're essentially they help missionaries get to the field
by taking care of the finances for them.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Folks have got a link to that as well on
the X page, and I will have that on the
blog page as well. We're going to get updates m HM,
and we're going to believe that God's going to meet
these needs quickly. Absolutely, Thanks so much for what you're
doing and what you're going to do. It's you know,
and folks that listen know my heart on this. I
(17:08):
never ask people to give to what I don't support,
and so friends, I'm saying this to you not because
hey me, I'm saying it because I want you to
know that my wife and I have sown money into
Chris and Lacy for a number of years. We will
continue to do that and I'm asking you to join
us in that effort. So I'm better for knowing you,
and I'm grateful for what you're doing. Thank you, Thank
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you all right, Chris and Lacy, Ryan, and again more
on the blog page. The links are on the X
page right now. Time for news, It's the morning Share
with Preston Scott
All right, kids, welcome third hour of the radio program
affectionately known as Common Sense Amplified. It's me and him.
That's Jose over there in Studio one A. I am
sequestered in Studio one B, and it's The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Great to be with you, show three
and seventy five. But who's counting? I am, And I'm
(00:22):
grateful for every dog on one of those shows. And
I'm really grateful to have some friends in here with me.
I got to know Chris and Lacy over the years
as we attend the same church, and so, as full
disclosure here, we attend Redhills Church. They won't be attending
there directly for much longer because Chris and Lacy are
about to head out to the mission field. Welcome to
(00:43):
the show. How are you guys? Great? How you doing? Yeah?
All right? So deep swallow here, share the short version
of where you've been before we talk about where you're going.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh yeah, I guess I'll thanks some time sharing that.
So Lacey and I would say we both felt I
called missions pretty early in our life, our first like
real foray into the.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Ask, did you feel called missions separately before you were
married hunt. Yeah yeah, really yeah in different ways too.
It was pretty neat.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's a that's probably a story for another time, but
it is pretty cool how the Lord brought.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That all together. Nice okay.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But we spent our like our first real launch into
the missions world uh in Guatemala. We did like short
term trips with an organization for years that was fighting
human trafficking.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Mm hmm. It was faith based, but uh, you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Know, attacking that issue had on sort of first, and
it was in that space where both of us were
really we had been dating and we're on a trip,
and we both were like, man, this is what the
Lord is calling us to do together. And so we
then got married and spent our first full for foray
uh in a a country in Asia that I can't
(01:56):
really share, but I'm confident everyone listening would know where
we were.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Lacey, is that like, that's my man, We're going to
get married and go work in the mission field in
some Asian nation.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I remember being in Guatemala and just and I knew
what I wanted to do, and I knew what the
Lord had been calling me to do, and I was
seeing him work out those same gifts and I was like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What you both learned from without naming the country, we're
leaving that out. What you learned from that experience?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh man, One thing I learned is just how powerful
God is in a country that is it's very difficult
to even just say that you believe in God, follow Jesus.
The zeal and the passion of the believers to put
Christ above everything else was like you read about that
(02:48):
kind of stuff, but it was shocking to see it
firsthand and realize that, like, wow, people here are literally
willing to die for the faith and like without a
second's thought, Like, without a second thought, did it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Cause you to look at American Christians differently? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, I when we first came back, there was actually
a lot battling, a lot of sort of anger. Yeah,
but it did it definitely. You know, you see the
persecution that people face, and you see that for their faith,
for their faith, for their faith only. Yeah, and not
even for fighting to you know, evangelize, but just for believing,
(03:34):
just for wanting to go to church, just for participating
in worship. You know, they're persecuted and they they see
that and they're grateful for it because and.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
When you're in that situation, there's this dynamic tension because
as a Christian you're supposed to share your faith and
what you believe, but you're in an environment in this
case where you're literally risking your life to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, it's a really unique I think what's difficult for
a lot of us too is we feel this, you know,
this burden to be sharing at every opportunity. But there
it was also a really like powerful thing to learn
that like, uh, even I am just a vessel and
like trusting what the Holy Spirit is doing and using
me to do right now it might just be to
(04:17):
build a relationship with this person so that they eventually
get to get to a place where they can hear
what they need to hear. Because if I were to
say something right now, it could shut it down right now.
So even that in itself was like wow, I actually
have to take a step back, Like I have to
be the I have to realize like, oh it actually
it actually doesn't all rely on me, so I can
I can just be patient and wait for what God
(04:38):
is doing.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And like see in partner with him in that. So
you got to walk around with your discernometer on full
tilt to know whether it's time to share or not
be just wait.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Und percent yeahah and that Actually the second thing we
learned was how much we needed training, how much we
needed to you know, we had the zeal, we had
the love. It was confirmed that we absolutely knew this
was what Jesus, this is what the Lord was calling
us to do. But man, we needed someone to teach
(05:10):
us how to do it in a way that wouldn't
hurt the people we were ministering to.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Back with Chris and Lacy Ryan, when I say missionaries,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Do you feel like missionaries? You mentioned the need Lacey
to get training. Did you do you feel different now
when you say to yourself I'm a missionary than you
did before the training.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh. I was gonna say a thousand percent, but honestly
it's more than that.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah. Why what comes about through the training that is
so I guess defining for your.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Role probably the tripping away of self simple.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, you know, whenever I think whenever we went to
our first field, we brought way too much of who
we were. We brought way way too much of what
presuppositions and just you know, oh you need this. I'm
coming to give you something that you know you need,
which is true in a sense. But we learned that
(06:25):
you know, we're we're just like Chris said earlier, we're
just the vessels for what the Lord is doing.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I heard someone once say that that the essence of
sharing the gospel, and whether that's just a couple of
people here in America or doing what you're doing overseas,
that the real boiled down, distilled version is one beggar
showing another beggar where they found bread. That's good.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, that's very good. Yeah, So that that resonates especially
and this is related to that. But you what what
you find in especially in a cross cultural situation, is
way before people respond to the Gospel, they respond to you.
And so like that that was what was and this
is what Lacy was touching on when she was talking
(07:05):
about what we took away.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
From the training.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But it was like, I want people to re spot
on the gospel. I don't want to come with like
things about me from my culture that I like that
are important, but those are the things that the people
are going to see first and here first, and I
don't want that to take away from the actual message
that I want to bring them.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So you've had a couple missions experiences, trips, stays, training,
and now in my mind, just you guys know me
just well enough to know that this is entirely possible.
I'm thinking dart board with the world. We close our
eyes and we throw a dart How'd you end up with?
Czech Republic?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So one of the things about our previous time, in
our first long term stay was even though it was
really difficult, we realized that, like, that's what we wanted
to work in. Like we felt called to difficult, complex areas,
and when we had opportunity to go visit the Czech Republic,
(08:02):
we realized that, like, wow, this is one of those places.
And but it's even what makes it even more unique
is it's sort of like an overlooked hard place because
students of history and theology will be very familiar with
people like Yan Who's and the Moravian Brotherhood. Those are
all Who's was a precursor to the Reformation. The Moravian
(08:25):
Brotherhood is the precursor to like the modern Mission's movement.
Those are all guys from the Czech Republic. This is
a place where like Christianity used to thrive and now
it's less than half a percent Christian. Wow, which when
you look at the world, that ranks it in some
of the most There's a lot of debate in the
missions war about what unreached means. But like, if we're
(08:48):
talking about people who just don't know the Lord, that's
pretty unreached.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
If he asked me, well, I was just gonna ask,
is it half a percent Christian? And the majority is blank?
Or is it blank as in they don't have them? Yeah,
they're secularists, they're humanists.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's like five like less than five percent has any
kind of believe anything at all. And then so ninety
five percent of the country is atheistic.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Really, that is hard to get my mind around. So
how do you even begin that process? Because I mean,
you're going, this is where you're going, and we're going
to tie into that a little bit more in a moment.
But where does that mission start? Well, part of.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It is I mentioned their history. I want like people
there will see that, Like it's not that I'm even
bringing something new to you, this is something that is
part of your Like I am a Christian today because
of the Zech Republic in a lot of ways, like
because of work that God started there. And so I'm
not even bringing you something you haven't heard before, it's
(09:56):
just something you've forgotten. Like this is woven into who
you are as people that the motto of the Czech
Republic is truth prevails, which is really interesting because they
are living in a place of you know, post truth.
But so I just want to help you rediscover, not
even bring in something brand.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
New and on an individual basis, it starts with just
earning trust and going over there and learning from them.
You know, this is a long term thing. It's not
just we're just going to go over.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And this isn't a three months six month.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Mission, you now, Yeah, this will take indefinite years of
building trust with individuals and showing them that we're not
there to just you know, bring them something and leave.
We're there to love them, just like Jesus would.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I would imagine that part of I mean, I'm not
trying to pat you guys on the back, but the
fact of the matter is anyone that does this is
making a remarkable personal sacrifice. You are leaving your families
and what you know to go and love these people
that you do not know. I would imagine that is
part of the entry point is for them to see that.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it, because people
when people understand that, they do see just how much
it's authentic.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah. I warned him before we ever started. I said,
it's going to be scary and frightening. How fast the
time is going to go by? And here we are
the final second. You're heading to the Czech Republic if
all things go the way that you want them to go.
And you were just saying the visas are approved, and
that's a miracle in and of itself, the speed of that.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, they'd say two three months, maybe longer, and it
was just a day or two past one.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So God wants you in the Czech Republic apparently, right,
So explain to people how that functions in your situation.
What does that look like going to the Czech Republic.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, So we are actually going to be partnering with
a really healthy local church in Prague, which is a rarity. Yeah. Yeah,
And I mean that's a whole miraculous story.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Is it a rarity because there is a church and
because it's local, and because it's healthy, all of those
things make it rare free together?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, okay, and just the way that it's led and
the discipleship orientation, and I mean they really pursue discipleship,
which is kind of rare in Czech Republic unfortunately. But
so we are actually going to be partnering with them
because they they want to be missional and they have
(12:25):
a lot of young people there that are are hungry
to be really you know, evangelists that that want to
be discipled in a way that hopefully they will become
future church planters.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
In my mind, I picture based on kind of what
you were describing, Chris, with the background of that there'd
be this remnant of older women with scarves tied around
their chin, right, that are that are make up that church.
And when you say there are young people there that
that really excites me.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah. People familiar with Prague will know that Charles University
in Prague is one of the oldest, like continuously functioning
universities in the world. So not only do all of
Check people from all of Check come to Prague for
that school, but people from the throughout the world go
to Prague for that school. Okay, so you actually have
this group of people sort of like constantly coming in
(13:18):
and out of younger people from Czech and throughout the world.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So there are two specific needs that exist right now.
Let's talk about first the need to get there. What's
the finances look like.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, so in order to get there, that's plane tickets,
that's apartment deposits, you know, all the things. We're looking
to raise thirty five thousand dollars, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And that's you're kind of liquidating your life here on
Stateside and it's moving everything that you have with you
and the whole nine hours.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We actually own about eight moving boxes of things total
right now, so like we don't have anything. That's also
partially just establishing a life there because like, yeah, we
are basically starting over.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, so you're you're purchasing residents and you're purchasing what
you need to function in the chest to public furnitures
and different things like that. All right, to give and
to help with that, what's the best way for people
to do that. The best way to do that is
actually really simple. It's give sendg dot com.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Slash ryans and that'll bring you to a our like
kind of campaign page for that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I have posted this of folks on our ex page
and I know some of you are like, I don't
do Yeah, I don't either, all right, but we have
the page and the link is there. I just pulled
it up. Give send go dot com slash ryans. You
can just write that down friends. I'm posting this on
the blog page as well, and this is for just
(14:52):
singular donations to help get you over there. Yes, right,
then there's the second level of need.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The second level of need is that that amount just
gets us there and gets us established in the country.
We we then need about six thousand a month as
just our how we live, like our regular ministry funds,
being able to buy food, all of that stuff, like
our yearly salary for the both of us, and that
is like a recurring need that we would need, you know,
(15:19):
and are.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You right now on support?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
My last update was that we're at about forty seven
hundred a month, So we're about thirteen hundred a month
below what we need to be at to just to
function indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So roughly speaking, you're about two thirds there, yeah, yeah, okay,
just about eighty percent.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So if we had thirteen people listening right now and
they wanted to give one hundred dollars a month to
support it, you're done.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I buy plane tickets.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Now we might not get all the stuff over there,
but I'll buy the plane guys there. And we've got
a link for that as well. But that process is
a little bit more because it is a we're hoping
for months commitments. I mean, you're not going to turn
anybody away that wants to help give anything towards that.
But what really, and I know this from our previous
efforts here on the show, what makes a difference is
(16:10):
a monthly commitment of whether it's twenty dollars or fifty
dollars or one hundred, whatever it is. And so that
is through the Clearinghouse. Yes, real quickly, what's that about.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
So yeah, we are missionaries sent out by our sending church,
Red Hills, but we are also a partner with the Clearinghouse.
And essentially what they do is they handle all of
the finances for missionaries. You get set up with them,
they handle everything you need, any forms you might need
for governments, for visas, all of that. When people when
you give to them, it's tax deductible, all of those things.
(16:41):
But they're essentially they help missionaries get to the field
by taking care of the finances for them.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Folks have got a link to that as well on
the X page, and I will have that on the
blog page as well. We're going to get updates m HM,
and we're going to believe that God's going to meet
these needs quickly. Absolutely, Thanks so much for what you're
doing and what you're going to do. It's you know,
and folks that listen know my heart on this. I
(17:08):
never ask people to give to what I don't support,
and so friends, I'm saying this to you not because
hey me, I'm saying it because I want you to
know that my wife and I have sown money into
Chris and Lacy for a number of years. We will
continue to do that and I'm asking you to join
us in that effort. So I'm better for knowing you,
and I'm grateful for what you're doing. Thank you, Thank
(17:28):
you all right, Chris and Lacy, Ryan, and again more
on the blog page. The links are on the X
page right now. Time for news, It's the morning Share
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